Breaking: DWP unit STOLE Seligman’s test

Last Updated: May 2, 2013By

Criminality rears its head in the heart of the Coalition government YET AGAIN! Not only did the DWP break both UK and EU law by running (fake) psychometric tests on jobseekers without getting informed consent, but the so-called ‘Nudge Unit’ that devised the project has STOLEN the test from its US creators. These people didn’t get permission to use the questions and are now facing legal action from abroad. One wonders if the government will be able to squash that kind of litigation, in the same way some of us fear it does with home-grown cases!

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13 Comments

  1. murray May 2, 2013 at 6:50 pm - Reply

    No less than they deserve,like so many of their party faithful,should be prosecuted.

  2. Liz727 May 2, 2013 at 6:56 pm - Reply

    Legal action? Serves ’em bloody well right! However, fed up paying for their myriad mistakes. Whoever stole it, pay the settlement out of your own damn pocket!

    • Cheryl Rowlands May 2, 2013 at 8:53 pm - Reply

      Unfortunately, any fine imposed will be paid, as usual, by the British taxpayer

  3. clowo May 2, 2013 at 7:15 pm - Reply

    I heard on The UK Column Live that they intend to sell psychometric test course!

  4. guy fawkes May 2, 2013 at 10:54 pm - Reply

    Is this government deliberately trying to hike up the benefits bill with litigation costs, so that they can anger the tax payer enough to cut welfare again to the poorest. The whole lot of them should be put up against a wall and shot.

    • Mike Sivier May 2, 2013 at 10:55 pm - Reply

      Now that’s a comment I can support unreservedly!

      • rev phil; May 3, 2013 at 10:21 am - Reply

        Here, bloody here.
        Please do not ignore the pun it is completely intentional.

  5. sparaszczukster May 3, 2013 at 3:41 am - Reply

    If the mainstream TV news channels don’t report this scandal we should get out there on the streets and make them listen. I can’t begin to describe how angry this makes me!!
    And if you need more convincing of how naff the Nudge lot are, check out this paper they wrote about how to conduct randomised trials. In it they claim that by doing these trials they can ‘prove’ their back to work interventions are the only factor involved in getting people jobs. They completely ignore any real social factors such as availability of jobs, geographical area, wage rates, travel costs, childcare costs or whether its full or part time or temporary work. No self respecting social scientist would put their name to this rubbish. I’m with guy fawkes and the firing squad idea.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/test-learn-adapt-developing-public-policy-with-randomised-controlled-trials

  6. brian boyle May 3, 2013 at 8:28 am - Reply

    Haha i love it its fail after fail for them even hardcore tory voters are starting to wonder

  7. Andrew de Riemer May 3, 2013 at 9:23 am - Reply

    After the “quash” of Britain’s high court ruling, on “Diego Garcia”, is there ACTUALLY a QUESTION about “the bottom line”? The U.$. & U.K._ DISGU$TING “BED-BUD$”!

  8. Joan May 3, 2013 at 11:16 am - Reply

    Am I in a dream? The stuff this government gets up to would have made a brilliant satirical comedy based on some faraway banana republic.

  9. George Berger May 4, 2013 at 12:14 am - Reply

    Here is one point that I haven’t seen mentioned. If some analyses of the DWP test’s computational abilities are correct, then the original test was transformed into a psychological trial, not a test of one person’s personality. Given that, we have not only a case of copyright infringement, but of misuse to test a sample population of persons without their informed consent.

    • Mike Sivier May 4, 2013 at 8:28 am - Reply

      Yes – that was the issue a couple of days ago. This is the latest problem with it.

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